Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Enterprise Search Needs Better Metadata
Today's workers are used to "Googling" queries and getting results quickly and accurately. However, while searching at work, these same workers often find it difficult...
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How Open-Source Software Can Dominate the World
Open-source guru Jon "Maddog" Hall, executive director of Linux International, spoke to an overflow crowd at LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA, making the case...
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The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service
The commercial opportunities of software as a service are widely hyped these days and many think SaaS is the future of software. That might be true in the medium...
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The Network Neutrality Debate Hits Europe
Differences in telecommunications regulation between the U.S. and the European Union are a key factor in viewing the debate over network neutrality legislation...
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Is Software Engineering Engineering?
Software engineering continues to be dogged by claims it is not engineering. Adopting a computer-systems view that embraces hardware, software, and user environment...
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Point/Counterpoint: Network Neutrality Nuances
A discussion of divergent paths to unrestricted access of content and applications via the Internet.
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International Communications Tapped For Intelligence-Gathering
Governments concerned with national-security threats use the Internet to gather intelligence from communications traffic that transits local facilities. This surveillance...
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Economic and Business Dimensions: The Extent of Globalization of Software Innovation
Will the software development laboratories follow the production mills?
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Why Ebay Lost to Taobao in China: The Glocal Advantage
How Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) electronic-commerce platforms in China compete and how buyers are stimulated to be both aware and trustful of sellers through buyer...
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Technology Strategy and Management: The Legacy of Bill Gates
Assessing the pluses and minuses of the helmsmanship of Microsoft Corporation since its inception.
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The Business of Software: The Ontology of Paper
The next generation of software engineering will involve designing systems without using paper-based formats, instead using software to develop software.
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Ground Control to Architect Tom . . .
Architecture astronauts habitually speak at extremely high levels of abstraction to avoid engaging in tangible discussions that might lead to disclosing that they...
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Law and Technology: The End of the Generative Internet
Exploring the expectations and implications for version 2.0 of the Net's new gated communities.
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How Are We Doing?
A rabbinical story tells about an angry reader who stormed into a newspaper office waving the day's paper, asking to see the editor of the obituary column.
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Kode Vicious: Permanence and Change
Highlighting the importance of doing one's best in view of code longevity and the impermanence of the changineer.
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CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
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Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger
Relational database pioneer Patricia G. Selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft's James Hamilton...
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Time to Take Evolutionary Development Off the Shelf
Large systems projects are failing at an alarming rate. It's time to take evolutionary design methods off the shelf.
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Multi-Core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Marc Snir acknowledges that multicore parallelism is difficult, and this difficulty can give rise to divergent...
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